we would like to use in curator this feature available in the API :
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.3/indices-rollover-index.html#_naming_the_new_index
@zumo64 I've just implemented it in https://github.com/mooprint/curator/commit/e3cd06e07db8bb7185196dc88b5aebaacf798b50?w=1
We need this to automate index/alias creation because increasing counter as suffix is not predictable which is a requirement when relying on default rollover behaviour.
Why don't you submit it as a pull request?
@untergeek Will do.
Will close this after I add some integration tests and documentation.